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TGN

bd_9f70e5e9511de96c · schema v1 · pii pii-v2

Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Oct 6, 2026

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for TGN →

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Thegentlemen on its public extortion blog. It has not been validated by the victim or any regulator. Treat attribution and counts as the threat actor's assertion until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure corroborates them.

Group activity: Not FoundDiscovered: 2026-10-09

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

tgn.com.ar zoominfo.com/c/transportadora-de-gas-del-norte/372392284 Transportadora de Gas del Norte (TGN) is Argentina's largest natural gas transporter, publicly traded on BYMA (TGNO4), founded in 1992 and operating 11,317 km of pipelines and 22 compressor stations across 17 provinces. It moves 40% of all natural gas in Argentina's pipeline system (~20% of the national energy matrix) and is the only operator connecting Argentina to Chile, Brazil, Bolivia, and Uruguay. FY2025 revenue was ~$483M (AR$600.6B, +20%), EBITDA ~$260M (55% margin), and net income surged +351% to ~$176M, driven by tariff reforms and Vaca Muerta export growth. The company has virtually zero debt (Debt/EBITDA 0.2x), $250M cash, and pays record dividends of AR$577/share (~10% yield), with a AA-(arg) credit rating (Fitch, positive outlook). It employs 600–1,153 people, is controlled by Gasinvest (56%) — a Techint/Tecpetrol + CGC/Eurnekian joint venture — and was named a Great Place to Work Top-25 in Argentina 2025

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Oct 6, 2026

Claim posted

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No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Claim → filing

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Compliance clock

Not assessable

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Unverified claimView incident

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claimThis record

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filing

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

No regulatory filing corroborates this yet — it is the attacker's own assertion. Watch this entity to be notified the moment a filing corroborates or contradicts it.

Source ceiling

  • actor name
  • victim claim
  • ransom/leak status
  • discovery date
  • materiality
  • notification
  • affected count
  • confirmed data types
  • compliance clock

The ✕ fields stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.

About this groupFirst seen 2023-02-28

thegentlemen

According to ransomware.live, The Gentlemen is a RaaS group that emerged in July–August 2025, rapidly claiming over 320 victims across 17+ countries by offering affiliates a 90% revenue share, deploying a Go-based locker against Windows, Linux, NAS, and BSD systems; a compromised C2 server in 2026 revealed more than 1,570 linked victims.

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